Grass

If the warning given by the national security adviser about the possibility of the IAF being infiltrated by the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Toiba was shocking, the news of two army jawans being arrested for suspected involvement with terrorists is like an aftershock. The news of top police officers being arrested in the Telgi stamp paper scam has become old hat now. Leakage of confidential information from the War Room of the Navy is a matter of serious concern. The very forces meant to defend the...

NEW DELHI: A lawyer by profession, Sandeep Kumar won by one of the biggest margins in the Delhi elections and has been rewarded with a ministerial berth for working to help the party expand its base at the grass-root level. 34-year-old Kumar had defeated four-time MLA from Sultanpur Majra, Jai Kishen, by 64,439 votes getting the giant-killer tag. He had the highest margin of victory in terms of percentage. In the 2013 elections, contesting from...

The conversation went something like this. First person: "It's rice, I can tell by the shape of the stalks. " Second person: "Don't be stupid, it's wheat. Rice needs lots of standing water and the soil here is almost totally dry. " Third person: "You guys have no idea; it's maize. Wheat and rice don't grow in this season . " Fourth person: "Maybe it's bajra. I've heard they have a lot of that stuff in this region. " First person: "What's bajra ?" Fourth person: "You don't know what bajra is!"

BANGALORE: You see it and don't realise it's artificial, you touch it and still remain unsure... you walk barefoot on it and can't believe it's not the real thing! It has a lifespan of 15-25 years, calls for zero maintenance, feels and looks like the real thing! Well, it's grass we are referring to and FieldTurf Tarkett , USA, one of the world leaders in next-generation artificial grass, has already completed over 200 installations in India! Kishore Pradhan, a...

PUDUCHERRY: Opposition Congress in Puducherry has initiated steps to revamp the party from grass root level. Congress, which has seven legislators in the 30-member assembly, has started nominating working presidents at block level committees as part of revamping the party, PCC President A V Subramanian said in a release here today. He said that K Palani was appointed as the working president in Nellithope block while R P Chandran and S Sakthivel Prabhu...

SHIMLA: German government has sanctioned a Rs 320-crore project to study the eco-system, climate change and its impact and mitigation in Kangra, Palampur and Chamba areas of Himachal Pradesh . Under the project, to be implemented in five years, a major task would be reclamation of cultivable land by weeding out Lantana grass and replacing it with green grass and broad- leaf trees to meet the requirement of fodder. Experts from ...

Among travellers from the West in India in the early 19th century Meer Hassan Ali's name stands out. She is not well known today, and many personal details about her are unclear, including her name. She was probably Biddy Timms, a devout young woman who met Meer Hassan Ali, an enterprising scholar from Lucknow who came to England in 1809 hoping to find work teaching Persian, Arabic and Hindustani to officers of the East India Company. The Company did hire him, not for their officers, but their military...

NEW DELHI: Sunday's fiasco at Ferozeshah Kotla was the result of an eleventh hour decision to plant fresh grass on the pitch which unsettled the surface, BCCI sources have revealed. To top that, the track selected for the India-Sri Lanka ODI match wasn't tested even once with a trial match which would have shown up the problems. "We used khurpa (small spade) to plant the grass which disturbed the top surface . This caused uneven bounce," an...

How many of us would consider getting a house, or even a gazebo, built with grass as one of the raw materials? Not too many, probably. Which Vaibhav Kaley feels is a pity, considering the grass referred to here is bamboo, a resource which is renewable, cost-effective and available in abundance in our country. The 34-year-old founder and chief executive officer of Wonder Grass set up the company in September 2007 along with younger...

PUDUCHERRY: Opposition Congress in Puducherry has initiated steps to revamp the party from grass root level. Congress, which has seven legislators in the 30-member assembly, has started nominating working presidents at block level committees as part of revamping the party, PCC President A V Subramanian said in a release here today. He said that K Palani was appointed as the working president in Nellithope block while R P...

NEW DELHI: Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi today announced an award for women of each district recognising their contribution towards women's issues and empowerment at the grass roots level. The award, comprising a cash prize of Rs 25,000 and a citation, will be given to a girl or woman from each district throughout the country on International Women's Day, March 8, a statement issued by the ministry said. "This will help to incentivise the...

By Mukul Sharma A friend said that there was no natural beauty to be found in a city like Mumbai. Two lines of inquiry opened up immediately. One, what do we consider "natural" beauty, and, two, why is it sufficiently missing in Mumbai? Her answer was that natural beauty consisted of — naturally — nature, woods, pine oil smell, leaves of grass, etc. And, of course, she was perfectly right in her own way. But let's consider, instead, for awhile the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright's 1935 masterpiece...

By: Gaurav Kalra 2002. The last time a player other than Roger Federer , Rafael Nadal , Novak Djokovic or Andy Murray won the men's singles title at Wimbledon. To imagine a winner outside these four, the top four seeds this year, is hard to imagine. But deliciously for the neutral fan, a clear front-runner hasn't emerged. Having won a record ninth crown at Roland Garros , Nadal is aiming to add to the titles he won here in 2008 & 2010. Over the last couple of...

NEW DELHI: Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi today announced an award for women of each district recognising their contribution towards women's issues and empowerment at the grass roots level. The award, comprising a cash prize of Rs 25,000 and a citation, will be given to a girl or woman from each district throughout the country on International Women's Day, March 8, a statement issued by the ministry said. "This will help to incentivise the...

Among travellers from the West in India in the early 19th century Meer Hassan Ali's name stands out. She is not well known today, and many personal details about her are unclear, including her name. She was probably Biddy Timms, a devout young woman who met Meer Hassan Ali, an enterprising scholar from Lucknow who came to England in 1809 hoping to find work teaching Persian, Arabic and Hindustani to officers of the East India Company. The Company did hire him, not for their officers, but their military...

THRISSUR: Holding that political parties should try to adopt decentralisation as a key organisational concept to ensure that they reflect the will of the people at the grass root level, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today said he would do his best to put into operation this principle in his party. Interacting with a group of 20 elected representatives of different civic bodies at the Kerala Institute of Local Administration (KILA)...

NEW DELHI: India taught the Chinese a lesson or two about playing on grass as they blanked the visitors 5-0 in the Davis Cup Asia Oceania group I tie here on Sunday. With an unassailable 3-0 lead under their belt, Prakash Amritraj and Harsh Mankad wrapped up the two dead rubbers in just under two hours of playing time to complete the clean sweep. While Prakash thrashed Sun Peng 6-2 6-4 in 48 minutes, Harsh overpowered Lu Hao 6-2 6-3 in one hour and five minutes. Meanwhile, Aisam-ul-Haq...

Ficus, bamboo, ferns, furcaria, dahlia and bird of paradiseb" Mohan Sambaji Jagthap is proud of his garden. Why not? All the plants along with a lush lawn have grown roots on his roof. Living above the ground level, Mohan found this space to indulge in his love for gardening. A patch of green on your roof or a terrace/ roof garden is a good idea which requires meticulous planning and detailed execution. Ten years ago when their house was being built, Mohan knew...

Ever since my grandparents retired to Madras (as Chennai was called then) my grandmother has been fighting a battle. The opponents are many, but the battlefield clearly defined - the patch of garden in front of our house where she has been trying to create a lawn. Over the years she has tried different grass seeds, tons of manure, complete soil transplants, regular cutting, different ways of watering, but the result is always the same: the grasses grow irregularly,...

Golf and I have always had a love-hate relationship. I started playing the game when I was eight and my coaches were convinced of my swing. Who could imagine that one day it would become one of the most powerful tools of my career? It opened the exclusive gates of the business world for me. As I pen down my first book Birdies In Business, I am going to share some of the insights from the chapters of this book, the lessons learnt by the country's top CEOs from...